The solemn season of reflection and prayer begins on February 10, 2016 with a 7:00 am Eucharist at St. Cyprian’s. During the Lenten season, there will be a 7:00 am Eucharist on Wednesday mornings. This year our parish is participating in what has become a regular part of a lot of peoples’ Lenten discipline–taking part in the ecumenical United Lenten Devotions which take place at a different church in the Boston area. Please check the schedule here for the times and hosting churches.

Enrolled members of the parish are reminded that the Annual Parish Meeting will take place January 31, 2016 following the service. At this meeting in addition to reports by the organizations of the parish, there will be elections of the parish officers: Senior Warden, Junior Warden, Treasurer, and Clerk each of whom serves a one year term and three vestry members each of whom serves a three year term. The duties and responsibilities of these offices are laid out in the parish by-laws which can be consulted here.

The time is rapidly approaching for celebrating the 46th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast hosted jointly by St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church and Union United Methodist Church on January 18th, 2016. Tickets are $50 pre-event and $55 at the door. Click here for further information. Please join us!

Here is the schedule for church services during Christmastide. Please join us for any or all of these services.

Christmas Eve Eucharist and Sermon: December 24, 2015, 8:00 PM

Christmas Day Eucharist and Sermon: December 25, 2015, 9:30 AM

Christmas I Eucharist and Sermon: December 27, 2015, 10:30 AM

New Year’s Eve Watch Service: December 31, 2015, 9:00 PM

Christmas II Eucharist and Sermon: January 3, 2016, 10:30 AM

Ceremony of Nine Lessons and Carols: January 3, 2016, 4:oo PM

St. Cyprian’s annual Christmas Concert featuring the Celestial Infernos Steel Band and St. Cyprian’s Gospel Choir will take place December 13, 2015 at 4:oo PM. Tickets available for a donation of $15.00 at the door. Here’s the flyer for the event. See you there!

We want you all to know that there will be two events this weekend of interest to the many friends of the Episcopal Church and St. Cyprian’s. On Oct. 31st, there will be a web cast of a Vigil Celebration and Eucharist sponsored by the Union of Black Episcopalians at 11:00 am preparing for Bishop Curry’s installation. It will be broadcast via the web at this link. On Sunday at the National Cathedral, there will be a Solemn Eucharist with the Installation of the 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry. This service begins at noon and will be broadcast on the internet at this link. Please keep Bishop Curry and his family in your prayers.

Our cousins across the Charles River, St. Bartholomew, is hosting a gala Dinner Dance November 7, 2015 at the VFW Post 1012, Medford, MA. Here is a flyer with further information.Music will be provided by DJ Ohh.

St. Cyprian’s Ushers’ Guild will be hosting its annual “Evening of Glitz and Glamour” this coming Sunday, October 25, 2015 at Biff’s Lounge, 18 Washington Street. The event begins at 4:00 PM. Tickets will be available at the door (donation-$15.00). Don’t miss it!

The Vestry has voted to call a special parish meeting for October 18, 2015 directly following the Sunday liturgy. The sole item of business will be a review and vote on a second revision of the parish by-laws.

Last spring, the revised by-laws approved at the 2015 Annual Parish Meeting were sent to the Standing Committee of the diocese. Under the canons of the diocese, any revisions to a parish’s by-laws must be reviewed and approved by the Standing Committee. Suggestions were made by a member of the Standing Committee to bring our revisions into alignment with the diocesan model by-laws.

A draft of the second revised by-laws integrating the suggestions is available here. Printed copies can be found at the back of the church. If you have any questions, please send them to office@stcyprians.org .

Sunday, September 13, 2015 marks the Sunday on which we celebrate the feast of St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr for the faith, the patron saint of our parish. Sunday service returns to its usual time of 10:30 AM. Please join us for worship and fellowship! For those unable to attend services in person, we will be resuming our live internet transmission of the Sunday liturgy.